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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Every August Until a CureFarber Institute for Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University researcher and Director of the Jefferson Weinberg ALS Center Piera Pasinelli, Ph.D., tells us five reasons to participate in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (now a yearly event kicking off...

The Role of Specialty Societies in Population HealthThe American College of Cardiology (ACC), headquartered in Heart House in central Washington, DC, is arguably one of the most important and powerful subspecialty societies worldwide. I appreciated being asked to open their 2-day Population Heal...

Ask the Physician: Dr. Lehr on Concussions and VisionHow often is vision affected in concussion? A recent study found that over 90% of outpatients with mTBI had one or more visual impairment, including difficulty with eye movements, focusing, and eye alignment. Basically, the eyes were not working well...

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